Aug 11, 2011

If you're an enchilada lover like me, you will love these!! Enchiladas are always my dish of choice when I go out for Mexican and this recipe is as good as any recipe you'll find in a restaurant (if not better) without all the fat!

If you're new to my site and seeing this for the first time, you are in for a treat! If you are a regular on my site, you're probably wondering why this is posted as new. I've decided to slowly go back to the archives and re-shoot some of my favorite recipes with bad photos. My photography has come a long way since I started this blog in 2008, and when I see some of my older images, I cringe!

This recipe was originally posted February 26th, 2010 back when I had a full time job and wasn't able to get home in time to shoot in natural light. It surprises me so many of you dared to try this based on this original image (but I'm glad you did!):

I like to serve these with yellow rice, re-fried beans and a little fat free sour cream topped with chopped scallions and cilantro. Leftovers are great the next day too!

I always have shredded chicken breast on hand, I usually make a whole package of chicken breast in my crock pot to use for recipes throughout the week. Leftover chicken would also work. Look for whole wheat, low carb such as La Tortilla Factory, or Mission Low Carb Whole Wheat Tortillas.

Gina, I am a mexican food fanatic! I'm crazy for some good cheese enchiladas but they are so NOT point friendly. These look fabulous! I am going to have to try them. I have a fantastic recipe called "Bill's Spanish Rice" from Cooking Light I'll share if you want. Add some FF re-fried beans and I'll be in heaven. I love your recipes and I'm so grateful that I have fund your site. Thanks for all you do!

This is my 1st time posting..I was surfing the nest the the other night and came across this great WEBSITE!!! LOVE IT GINA! My name is Amy..My hubby name this tonite for dinner and it was AWESOME!!! He was a little worried, being he is not really into lowfat and he LOVED it!!!:))) Thanks for sharing!!!

Great recipe! Any chance you could show a photo of the package of the TJ's tortillas you bought? Or maybe give a link? I'm having a hard time tortillas that have nutritionals that would equal to half a point. Thanks!

@Sharon- Cooking the chicken once for the week makes making meals throughout the week so much faster and it really takes no time to toss a bunch of chicken and vegetables into the crockpot. I love the idea of pumpkin and chicken enchiladas!

@Amy- Thanks for posting! This really does not taste low fat :)

@Valerie- I couldn't find a link for Trader Joe's, if you can't find half point tortillas, there are lots of 1 point tortillas, you wold just have to add 1 more point per serving.

Gina, just found your website and I'm already making one of your dishes tonight. One question, you say you keep shredded chicken on hand. Can you share what you put in the slow cooker with your chicken (broth, veggies,etc.). I just would like to know what and how much so I can start to do it too. Thanks....love this site!!!

I'm going to make this recipe this week, I'm so excited to try it. I found .5 pt tortillas made by La Tortilla Factory. They are the Sonoma wheat, low carb tortillas. I bought them at Trader Joes but I've seen them at the other grocery stores.

I made this for dinner tonight and my husband kept saying he felt so guilty for eating two of these and all for only 6 points! Thanks you Gina for this web site and daily updates. I absolutely love it! Keep up the great work! You're a life saver!

Living in San Antonio, I am very spoiled when it comes to Mexican food. But this recipe is awesome! My chipotles were extremely hot, so hubby and I ended up putting lots of sour cream on top to take some of the heat off but nevertheless it was yummy and soo satisfying. I was so positively surprised by all that yummy melty cheese. I will definitely make this again! Thank you, Gina!

This recipe is absolutely awesome! It's amazing that you can get flavor like this in so few points. They were a bit spicy hot for me, but next time I will use less chilis. They are very large enchiladas. I made the corn salsa with these and it was a wonderful meal.

I made these for dinner tonight - a bit spicy for the kids but I LOVED them. I am so impressed with your blog. It is so nice to find healthy recipes that still have lots of flavor and leave you feeling satisfied!

I made this for the second time the other night because I loved them soooo much! Thought I had chicken and turns out I didn't, so I used pork tenderloin instead (I looked it up and it actually is the same points as chicken breast!) and it was super yummy AGAIN!!!

I just made this tonight and it is DELICIOUS! I have to admit, the chiles in adobo that I bought were waaaaaay too spicey so after 20 minutes of begging "Can we eat yet?", I had to throw chicken nuggets in the microwave for the little ones, too much heat. I'll have to try to find milder chiles so the whole family can enjoy because this one is definitely a keeper!

I made this up & then read the comments while it was baking. did chicken nuggets for the kids & i'm glad i did! it was spicy for me but fine once i put a little ff sour cream on it. my hubby was in heaven (loves spicy food). i even removed 90% of the seeds from the chipotle peppers. next time i'll make sure to get rid of 100% of the seeds & maybe dial back the sauce a bit. it was VERY good though - just not kid-friendly (or not friendly for MY kids!) ;)

I made these last night and they were awesome! My boyfriend even said 'I like this Gina girl' (I've been feeding him your recipes for a few weeks now, and we haven't had one that was not awesome)!

But - for the life of me I have not been able to find 1/2 point tortillas! I buy La Tortilla Factory 100 calorie, but they are one point! So I counted two of the enchiladas as 7 points instead. We made them with beans and rice - I couldn't even finish two!

Thanks for all your recipes - as a Weight Watcher for nearly 3 years (and nearly 100 lbs later) - the variety you provide is greatly appreciated!

I recalculated and still get 3 points each. They are high in fiber, and since the max fiber you can calculate is 4, I calculated them for 8 servings instead of 4. Try getting the points for 8 servings and see what you get. Here are the stats for one- Calories 159.5, fat 5.9, Fiber 8.3

@deeters, did you assemble the tortillas ahead of time? Enchiladas have to be prepped and cooked right away, so it may have been sitting in the sauce too long. Also, maybe cut back the cooking prevent this. They basically just need to be heated through, and the cheese needs to melt.

Made this last night for the second time, this time I lowered the chipotle in the sauce to a little bit less than 1Tablespoon (first time I made I added tooooo much chipotle, almost couldn't eat). I also added some orange zest to the chicken which brightened a little bit the flavor and my husband and I lovedd it!!! They are delicious and I'll have them for lunch today!

I very very rarely am motivated enough to come back and leave comments,reviews etc. for anything. But I just made and devoured theses enchiladas and they are excellent! I started weight watchers about 6 months ago, and I can honestly say this is THE BEST RECIPE I've made so far.

Gina, I've haven't been following your blog for very long but i LOVE it! I made these tonight but substituted the 1/2c of tomato sauce for salsa in the chicken mixture. I also cut back on the chicken broth and added taco sauce. It came out great! Thank you so much for all of your posts! Keep 'em coming!

Made these last night for Cinco De Mayo, I will never have to forgo Enchiladas again while trying to eat healthy!! These were DIVINE!! We are huge cilantro & garlic fans so I bumped up the amounts on both. I got several "these are great" comments throughout the meal. Definately have two! My significant other had four because he couldn't help himself! I am so glad I found your blog, every recipe we have tried has been a hit. Thank you Gina.

dang, i forgot to comment on these, i made them 2 weeks ago and both my husband and i were in love. i served it with sour cream and a side of Fat Free Refried beans and corn. out of this world. i wonder how much the points would increase if the barbacoa was used instead? have you tried this Gina?

Gina, I made these last night for my family and OH MY GOODNESS!!!! They were so delicious. The flavors reminded me of being at a really GOOD Mexican restaurant. This recipe is a keeper. Thank you so much.

These enchiladas have become a staple in our dinner repertoire! My husband LOVES them as well. I am overseas with the military, and am having a hard time finding such low-carb/low point tortillas, so ours are higher in points, but VERY tasty!!!!!! Thank you for all your recipes. I haven't found one I don't like yet!

Holy Moses! I made these last night and they were AMAZING!!! Seriously, I'm floored, my husband was floored.. so much flavor, so filling (we added a side of black beans to ours) and so easy to make! I love you for coming up with this. :) Thank you!!!

Just wanted to say how much I love your blog. I made the enchiladas tonight with the black bean & avocado salsa. Both were really delicious and I even made them with fat free cheese. I will certainly continue to check back for more great recipes. For your readers, I found this recipe to take a lot of time to make with many ingredients. Don't prepare when short on time or with a household of kids ;-)

I skimmed everyone's comments and I didn't see anyone else having the same issue... I for some reason followed everything strategically (almost anally, even!!!) and I could only get 6 tortillas?? I bought the smaller, half point La Tortilla factory tortillas, So i know I wasn't overstuffing them. What happened? :c(

It smells delicious either way, so now I'm just wondering points value if I only made 6 instead of 8.

So I just calculated it, and it looks like with only making 6, one enchilada is 4 points, and 2 is 9 :c( Aah well, so delicious and so worth it!! I was satisfied after 1 and a half i probably should have just stopped. But they were so delicious!! Even got hubby's approval. He said "Have you ever made enchiladas before?" "Nope, never!" "Well you nailed it!" Hooray!! :c)

But, Gina, this recipe has one thing wrong with it. I can't stop eating it! IT'S DELICIOUS! I'm not even a good cook. No matter, it was unbelievably great! Can't wait to try more of your brilliant recipes.

These were DELICIOUS. Can't recommend them highly enough. I had some extra enchilada sauce left over that I sauteed with some peppers and onions as a side dish for another meal. Didn't even need any oil. Really tasty. The enchilada sauce also freezes well. Can't wait to make these again soon.

Hi, Gina, I love your recipes but can't seem to get them to print properly anymore. Used your print button and got 15 blank pages (aside from the web address at top and bottom of page) and am pretty sure my printer isn't messed up. Wanted to share with you in case your widget needs adjusted.

Hi Gina! i'm 29, male and i'm not on weight watchers or anything, i just really like to cook, and i found my way here via simpledailyrecipes.com. ANYWAY, i just wanted to let you know i tried the chicken enchilada recipe and it blew me away. i'm not really "into" diet food stuff, but in my opinion your recipes are incredible, and your ideas and applications are very smart and inventive and i think that your site basically transcends the dieting foodsite medium. your south american and central american dishes are especially... um, well. special! my friend fatima is from el salvador and she makes a bunch of the same kind of stuff but the heavier, traditional way and she's got a very overweight young son and she's diabetic herself and i'm very excited to speak to her and tell her all about your blog, i think it could literally change her and her boy's lives.

re the enchiladas, i made the chicken (and stock) as per your stock recipe, used the same tortillas and diet cheese and reduced fat sour cream (not FF). I actually ADDED about half a can of the chipotle's in adobo. i couldn't find the adobo powder (i live in tucson, so that was weird, lol) so that was my reasoning, and i thought i should use up the can. i like spicy, but i was worried making it too hot would make the rest of the food kind of irrelevant. the enchilada sauce did taste pretty hot at first, but i found it became much milder the longer i cooked it down (i like it a little thicker). anyway, i get great mexican food all the time but this must have been the best enchilada sauce ever. i guess at restaurants and stuff they must water it down a little or something.

anyway, sorry to go on and on, but i'm just so impressed with your site. i can't believe that my favorite cooking blog for the last month is for WEIGHT WATCHERS of all things.

@youreviltwin - Wow, what a great compliment! I know the word diet keeps non-dieters away from my site. I really try to make great tasting food that is good for you. I appreciate your comment! Please tell your friend that she can still make the same meals, she just has to learn how to cook them differently. If she has diabetes, she needs to change her eating habits today!

i was looking forward to doing the pork carnitas... i was thinking of making your black bean/corn/avocado salad stuff to put on that (burrito bowls), but i was also thinking of making the chimichurri for carnita soft tacos. you think that would be good? i know it's more for beef, but i'm kind of curious.

Oh my goodness.... I LOVED THESE!! I used a can and a half of Kirkland chicken breast from Costco. It's very lean and a great quality. Definitely cuts down on prep time. The sauce is a bit spicy, but for me it was just right.

We had these for lunch today. It's cold out and the men are watching football so I found this recipe to clean out my fridge. I used the leftover Mexican Slow Cooker Carnitas we had on Thursday and leftover shredded chicken AND leftover black beans to fill mine and make a double batch (for leftovers during the week. Served 'em with Cilantro rice and a side salad. They were fantastic, thanks!

Gina,This recipe made the BEST chicken enchiladas I have EVER eaten! I live in Canada and sadly it is hard to find a good mexican food here. When we go out I always order chicken echiladas and they are always so dry. My husband and I polished off the entire dish! I know that defeats the purpose of ww, but we just couldn't help ourselves. We didn't even touch our side dishes, we just wanted MORE ENCHILADAS!!!

Delicious. I wanted to make chicken Ropa Vieja for the second time, but realized I had chipotles to use up. I made a compromise and filled these with the Ropa Vieja as it didn't seem too far off from the filling above.

Just wanted to come back and tell you that they turned out freaking FANTASTIC! My boyfriend could not BELIEVE they were healthy! It was insane how good they are. I'm still in disbelief! I sent your page link to everyone I know!

Gina, thanks so much for this recipe. Just started WW recently and am struggling to stay within points--and I LOVE Mexican food! These are delicious!

This calculated to 4 points per enchilada for me--well, the chicken breasts I used weighed more than 8.5 oz. No biggie. That's still very few points for a really flavorful and filling main dish! I ate one enchilada w/Italian blend veggies and a dollop of low fat yogurt to sub for "sour cream," and I felt like I pigged out! My DH, who has 100 lbs on me, ate two and felt stuffed. And they are so good! YUM!

BTW Kristin, I boiled my chicken breasts in some extra chicken broth. I don't think it really matters for this dish how you cook the meat. The sauce has enough zing to flavor the meat.

WOOOO!!! I made these Enchiladas tonight, and boy, they do pack some HEAT!! I did closer to 2 tbsp of the chiles in adobo. My hubby loved them! (I did too, but I definitely needed the sour cream to cut the heat a little)

For clarification: when using the chiles in adobo sauce, do you take them out of the sauce at some point? We didn't eat them (once I tasted how spicy the sauce was, I was afraid to.) Are they safe to eat? Or are they for flavor and should be removed (sort of like a bay leaf or something.)Thanks!!

Hi Gina, My husband made these for me the other day, and they were so good, I made them (actually did all the prep w/o putting them together) for a company dinner tomorrow night. I love the flavor, the low points and the fact that you can do most everything ahead of time:) We are also having a southwest salad, black bean soup and chocolate creme brulee ( A ww recipe...5 pts, but with the enchiladas being so low, we can afford them:) thanks for a great blog with awesome recipes!

WOW! I made these the other day and also the crockpot chicken broth, and the enchiladas were so GOOD! I also added some black beans in there. I can't wait to make them again! I will make them with corn tortillas next time just to see how they are-I bet they will taste just as good!Thanks for the recipe!I didn't make them spicy and my son (he is 5yrs old) LOVED them-evryone loved them!THANKS!!!!!!!!

I will say preparation a little work. i will next time make the chicken and sauce ahead of time... I will say that my family and i enjoyed this soooo much. It is Delicious with alot of flavor. I forgot sour cream for my daughter...oops. I didnt add the chipotle chilis in adobo sauce for the spicyness (my daughter) but i used it later to top mine with. you can add it afterward on top. I did plug it into my WW Etools with the new program and the points plus is 3 pt. Whew hew. Enjoyed every bite and am excited that my family (and husband) loved it. Thanks Gina!

yes i plugged in everything...at my meeting today they were saying sometime brands that you choose can be a little different to the next.let me know what you come up with please. Lisaloca13@comcast.net. have a great weekend.

Hi Gina - New to your site so I apologize if this is somewhere else (I'll keep searching), how do you make the shredded chicken in the crock pot? Thanks! (LOVE the site - thank you so much for yummy healthy recipes!

So... I just made these last night and they are INCREDIBLE! And this is coming from a tex-mex fanatic. I was so tempted to roll up additional cheese with the chicken in the tortillas, but I'm so glad I didn't as it would have been a waste of calories! Who needs extra cheese with flavor like this?! I made my own refried black beans using a couple of the leftover chipotles in adobo and cilantro. Delicious! Best tex-mex meal ever!

Gina~ I don't have chipotle chili in adobo sauce or the chipotle chili spice and am not motivated to drag all my kids out in the snow to go to the grocery store. I have everything else. How should I replace it? I have plain chili's, chili powder, jalapeno's- what do you think would be a good substitution? or should I just skip it till I get to the store? Thanks!!

I made these, they were AMAZING! I am making them again this week, so I went to print out the recipe (like I did last time) and the sauce ingredients don't print out with the recipe or transfer to PDF! FYI :) But thank you for the recipe!

The first and only time I made these, I made them with extra lean ground beef instead of chicken because I forgot to get chicken at the store. They were so phenomenal!!! I want to make them tonight using chicken. Maybe this is a stupid question, but I don't see how 2 chicken breasts shredded is enough for 8 enchiladas? Am I missing something? Is that right?

I figured it out! Your chicken breasts are bigger than mine! :) Mine are 4 oz. each and yours are 8 oz. each, right? So I would use 4. Sorry about blowing up your blog with comments, it's only because I love this blog and its recipes SO much! :D

Made this tonight, and it was OUTSTANDING. What a great recipe--nobody would ever, ever guess it was "lightened up." So flavorful. Need to find more uses for the rest of the chipotle chilis I bought, but no worries. I used ground chicken breast that I browned and drained, since that's what I had on hand--it worked just fine. I will make this again and again until my family begs me to stop.

These are so good, but with the tomato sauce I've been using, the sodium is really, really high. Can anyone recommend a lower sodium (as well as lower sugar) canned tomato sauce that still tastes good? I'm afraid to buy just any old one for fear that I'll just have to end up adding more salt in the end.

gina, i just came across your website this weekend. i cant believe ive been missing this. ive already made two of your recipes and they are BIG hits. the enchiladas...wowzers! they taste impossibly skinny. so good! thank you for keeping up a great, easy-to-use website!

i don't know what i'm doing wrong. i only saw one other comment about this, but i followed everything exactly as written, but by using 1/3 cup in each tortilla, i had the exact amount for 6 perfectly portioned enchiladas... not 8 :c( what am i doing wrong?! 8.5 oz shredded chicken, 1/3 cup chicken broth, 1/2 cup tomato sauce, all the extra goodies (onion and spices and whatnot).... but i am only getting 6 enchiladas!

I made this for dinner tonight... AMAZING! I found your blog today with a google search for healthy chicken recipes, and I'm so happy with what I found! I already bookmarked quite a few others for future dinners. :) Thanks so much for all the great, easy-to-follow recipes with the beautiful pictures!

This was our favorite skinnytaste recipe to date! I used beef instead ebcause I was making chicken every other night this week. It was AMAZINGLY yummy. We have yet to make on of your recipes and not liked it. Thanks so much

I should've stopped at one! But they were just too darn yummy! My husband went for seconds so I followed him right back to the stove for seconds, too! I only got another half, but along with the Spanish yellow rice and a garden salad, I am now just absolutely stuffed. I love this site! At my husband's request I am making zucchini and/or banana bread every week now. He loves a slice in the evening with a cup of coffee.Thanks Gina for all your hard work.

Thank you Gina! This Chicken Enchilada recipe is delicious! My husband and daughter, who are not on Weight Watchers, loved it too. I paired it with the Chipotle Cilantro Rice - it was just fabulous! Thank you!

This was amazing. Second recipe I have tried from this site in two weeks. My husband said it was his favorite thing that I have made and could not believe it when I told him it was healthy.

I do have a silly question though... the chipotle in adobo sauce--the peppers were in the sauce but they never really broke down. Should I have chopped them? Or do you just leave them in for flavor and then take it out once the sauce is done?

Gina, I just wanted to say THANK YOU - I have made this recipe many times, but I also use the enchilada base for many other Mexican Recipes I make. It's perfect, and I can change it to suit my tastes :)

I just found your site today and am so in love I will be back everyday!!! Your food looks so good and delicious if it taste half as good as it looks I'm in for a great treat also thanks for showing the ww points plus .

Oh my god - today was one of the roughest days I've had in a long time and when I saw this recipe, it's like the heavens opened up. I.am.an.enchilada.fa.reak! I love them! Definitely making this recipe, this weekend. Thanks again for your awesome hard work on this - the meals are SO delish!

thanks for giving us a place to store these. I hated to print them because I hate the pictures that come along with the recipes, whoops, I love the pix but hate the color ink costs. :) Thanks for sharing your recipes. It helps us when we are unable to find that perfect recipe. YOU always have one ready and waiting.

Gina! I love your recipes! I am so thankful you have the recipes separated so I can search for dinner or vegetarian. Will you separate out all of the delicious fall recipes the same way you did the summer ones? I am obsessed with all things fall...butternut squash, pumpkins, apples! I am so excited to see what you give us! Thanks!

My sister and I were planning on making these yesterday, and then you put up the throw back recipe, and we knew it was fate! DELICIOUS!!! We loved them! Had a hard time getting 8 enchiladas worth of the chicken filling...don't know why b/c we measured out everything exactly and filled a 1/3 c. measuring cup of filling for each enchilada to be exact. Oh, well. We still had some leftovers for my lunch today! Thanks, again, for helping all of us eat tasty and lose weight doing so!

Hey Gina, I am sorry if this has been asked before or is in another post. I really dislike the flavor of chipotle. I am not a big bbq sauce fan, and chipotle tastes a lot like bbq sauce to me. ANYWHO, my question is do you have an enchilada sauce that is equally as delicious, but minus the chipotle items?

Gina, thank you thank you for reposting old recipes. I am fairly new to your site and I'm addicted!! I love looking at a recipe and then finding another one that is just as wonderful under the link "you might also like"!! Once in a while the links are broken and I get bummed I can't get the recipe. Please repost them all (or as many as you can :) Everything I have made has been amazing. Thank you for sharing!!Terri V.